{"id":252052,"date":"2026-07-08T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/alexia-putellas-joins-london-city-lionesses-equalizer-soccer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:51:06","slug":"alexia-putellas-joins-london-city-lionesses-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/alexia-putellas-joins-london-city-lionesses-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexia Putellas joins London City Lionesses \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\" class=\"left relative\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GPF7327-1000x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1000\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-post-feat-img--><\/p>\n<p>Two-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner and Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas has joined English Women\u2019s Super League team London City Lionesses following the expiry of her contract at Barcelona. Over 14 years playing professionally in Spain, Putellas lifted 38 trophies \u2014 including winning Liga F 10 times and four UWCL titles \u2014 scoring 232 goals in over 500 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/49018363\/two-ballon-dor-winner-alexia-putellas-joins-wsl-side-london-city-lionesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Putellas had several offers, including from the NWSL, but London City were always frontrunners. The decision was reportedly motivated by a desire to stay in Europe and remain close to home, but not compete regularly against Barcelona. London City\u2019s owner, Michele Kang, also owns OL Lyonnes in France and Washington Spirit in NWSL.<\/p>\n<p>Putellas, 32, left Bar\u00e7a by lifting the Champions League trophy after a resounding 4-0 victory over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=19256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OL Lyonnes<\/a>\u00a0in the final. 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Over 14 years playing professionally in Spain, Putellas lifted 38 trophies \u2014 including winning Liga F 10 times and four UWCL titles \u2014 scoring 232 goals in over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}